Boox M92 software list

How to install software on the M92: forum thread

System

• Firmware: [1], [2]
• Language files: in this thread (along with reference to a tool to create them) [3]
• PowerManagement Timeout customization (requires installation of sqlite3): [4]
• Screensaver Picture Manager: [5]
• SDCard watchdog (warns when a write-protected SDCard is inserted or when memory on SDCard falls below a threshold): [6]
• Snapshot Screensaver: [7]

Fixes for specific problems

• Calibration fix: (not needed for firmware version > 1.6) [8]
• Freeze-Bugfix-Firmware (try only if you have this specific problem - and check the thread reports on effectiveness): (Context: [9],[10], [11], [12], [13]), [14], [15]

Readers

• EvoPedia: (Offline Wikipedia reader) [16]

Fixes for specific problems

• CSS ignorance fix for CoolReader: ([17]) [18]
• Hyphenation fixes for CoolReader: ([19], [20]) [21]

Editors

• Alternative Scribble: [22]

Networking

• FTP Tools: (mind security concerns: [23]) ([24],[25]) [26] ([27],[28])
• MAC editor: [29]
• Serial Console via USB: [30]
• SSH: (not yet working reliably due to missing pts fs support) [31]
• RSH via Netcat (very unsecure! Do not use in other than the securest of network environments!): [32]
• ZModem for serial transfers: [33], [34]

Utilities

• ColorPDFTools (facilitating multicolor scribble annotations in merged PDFs): [35]
• File Manager: [36]
• Snapshot hack: [37]
• SQLite3: [38] ([39])
• Unit converter, Chemical period table: [40]
• Betty Boox Terminal Emulator: [41]
• Serial VNC, Connect your Boox M92 to your PC to use as an E-ink monitor: [42]
• BooxCrypt, A script for encrypting and decrypting files and folders: [43]
• OnyMail, An application for fetching documents from e-mail messages: [44]

Music player

• Script enabling playback of web streams: [45]

Games

• Chess, Sokoban: [46]
• Reversi, Sudoku, Tictactoe, Minesweeper, Hangman, Chess, Battleship: [47]

Content

• Dictionaries: (installation information: [48]), (new freedict repository: [49]), (old stardict repository: [50]), (german Duden: [51] ([52]), [53])
• Evopedia content: (installation information: [54]), [55]
• Scribble backgrounds: [56], (adapted to screen resolution: [57])
• Screen saver/boot/shutdown/$foo images: ([58]) [59]
• Blank 150 pages .pdf (as scribble alternative ;) ) : [60]

Scripting

• Busybox with extended feature set: [61]
• Python port (including PyQt): [62], [63] ([64], [65])
• (older) Python port (for Pocketbook - runs on M92, too [66]): [67]
• UI primitives for scripting (input, output, confirmation dialog): [68]
• additional UI primitive (file browser):[69]

Source

• [70]
• Scribble: [71] ([72])
• Evopedia port: [73]
• Reader software(?): [74], (PoDoFo [75]), ([76][77])

Useful PC Software

• Converter from SQLite Scribble database files into .svg: [78] ([79])
• Xournal (printing merged PDFs with annotations in Linux) : ([80])
• PDFXChangeViewer (printing merged PDFs with annotations in Windows) : ([81])
• Briss (cropping/modifying PDFs): [82] ([83])
• QTLinguist (to create language packs for the M92) : [84] ([85])
• Script to merge annotations as notes into new PDF file : [86]
• PDF Metadata Editor [87] ([88])
• Automated script for Linux to write the file name of PDFs in the Metadata of the PDFs (works for the entire selected folder): File:Metadata-renamer-v10.sh.txt. This serves as a work-around for the problem that the file manager does not show file names, but the titles of PDFs. GerryT